Centre Bright - Missoula, Montana

"He that has light within his own clear breast 

May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: 

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts 

Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Himself his own dungeon." - John Milton (1609-1674)

Future Abundance - Missoula, Montana

"Choose a mindset of abundance.  There is enough for both of us to win." - from Book Notes by David Mays, on Stephen M. R. Covey's The Speed of Trust, The One Thing That Changes Everything

Reaching To Blue Sky - Missoula, Montana

"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon." - Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)

Nostalgic Eight - Victor, Montana

"Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty." - Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

Special Chrome - Victor, Montana

The Best Husband Ever spent literal hours over Labour Day weekend shining up the chrome wheels - outer AND inner surfaces - on a spiffy used car we just bought.  Good thing for his obsessive self that our rig doesn't sport the abundance of chrome featured on this classic Buick Eight Special, or he'd still be polishing away. From a practical standpoint, sometimes it's okay that they don't make 'em like they used to.

We espied this Buick beauty yesterday on an open haul trailer spanning several parking lot spaces  at Cowboy Troy's in Victor, Montana. Regretfully, I do not have details or a story on this car - our usually chatty group was very hungry and didn't even think of talking with the car's owner until half a pizza had disappeared - and also the car. (Obviously, it was really good pizza.)

So, if you have any insight on what year Buick Special sported these particularly delightful hooded cherry-on-top* headlights, please enlighten us in a comment below - and then you can update the Wikipedia entry.

(*Sorry, in this angled view you can just see the chrome housing of  little round red topper light on the far headlight.)

Destined Seeds - Missoula, Montana

"Actions are the seed of fate; deeds grow into destiny." - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

Leaves Floating - Stevensville, Montana

"...And the formal customs we once had,
like wearing red during hunting season,
are only signposts pointing the way
in and out of the territories—
Colored leaves floating on the water
hesitant, before the rains com." - from 'Field Guide' by Cynthia Zarin

Read the entire poem here.